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So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence â€“ not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… — Thomas Pynchon
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes… — Michel Faber
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it… — C.S. Lewis
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether… — Jane Roberts
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be… — Jess Walter
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. — Daniel Handler
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from… — Carl Jung
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent… — Terry Eagleton
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might… — Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying… — Jose Saramago
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because… — Soren Kierkegaard
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read… — Charlotte Bronte
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to… — John Berryman
Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate.… — Paulo Coelho
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they canâ€™t imagine a different world, they… — Rita Dove
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and… — Bell Hooks
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality… — Ayn Rand

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